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The Consumption of Inequality - eBook

9781137352491
1-137-35249-3

The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. In this book, Halnon delineates how incarceration, segregation,.

stigmatization, cultural and social consecration, and carnivalization work in the production and consumption of inequality.